Scientists Just Discovered the World’s Oldest Octopus Is Something Else Entirely
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For 25 years, a single, squashed, 300-million-year-old fossil sat comfortably at the top of the cephalopod hall of fame. Pohlsepia mazonensis had a Guinness World Record. It had a reputation. Scientists cited it as the oldest known octopus on Earth. And the whole time, it was something else entirely.
New research published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B confirms that Pohlsepia was never an octopus. It was a nautiloid—a shelled cephalopod more closely related to the nautiluses still cru
New research published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B confirms that Pohlsepia was never an octopus. It was a nautiloid—a shelled cephalopod more closely related to the nautiluses still cru
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